The gunman who massacred eight people at a FedEx facility in Indiana committed suicide as police approached, officials said Friday.
Investigators are still trying to identify the man who opened fire at the factory just outside Indianapolis around 11 p.m. Thursday.
“We are unable to make a positive identification of the suspect,” said deputy chief of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Craig McCartt at a news conference.
Police officials said the shooter was found dead on the scene from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound and that he used some kind of rifle to carry out the murders.
By the time agents came in, the situation was over. The suspect took his own life shortly before the officers entered the facility, ”McCartt said, adding that the gunfire lasted only“ a few minutes ”.
The deputy was unable to say whether the shooter was a FedEx employee.
Eight people died in the shooting and five others were also injured. The injured are expected to survive.
“He just seemed to shoot randomly, and that started in the parking lot, and he entered the facility for a short period before taking his own life,” McCartt said of the killer.
The deputy chief said the investigation is still in its ‘infancy’.
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said the shooting put the city in the spotlight “in ways we never hoped.
“Last night, Indianapolis was revisited by the plague of gun violence that has killed far too many people in our community and in our country,” Hogsett said at the briefing. “No shred of information will restore the lives that were taken or the peace that was broken.”